Army Retreats For Disarmament

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August 21, 2001

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Army troops will pull back from front-line areas where NATO forces are to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels, Macedonia's government said Monday in a sign of its commitment to ending six months of fighting. The announcement of a "redistribution" of government forces came during a visit by Gen. Joseph Ralston, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe.